Abstract
This essay focuses on the processes by which social actors transition from words to walls and from walls to words. I begin with a consideration of dialectics of space and society and the position of the house in such dialectics. In the second section, I examine Henri Lefebvre’s meditations on the production of space to argue that although space is subject to certain organising principles, there is always a capacity for individual agency and resistance. In the third and fourth sections, I explore briefly the implications for our study of Roman housing.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World |
Subtitle of host publication | Material and Textual Approaches |
Editors | Jen Baird, April Pudsey |
Place of Publication | Cambridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Chapter | 14 |
Pages | 442-69 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781108845267 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Housing
- Domestic
- Social Theory
- Lefebvre
- Ancient
- Roman